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adjectivemelanotic (not comparable)
- not comparableRelating to melanosis.
In the first place truly neoplastic melanomas are uncommon before puberty; anomalously, such lesions may be trichotic, whereas hair-bearing melanotic lesions in adults rarely become malignant.
1955, The New England Journal of Medicine, page 21
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